Motivational Quotes

Time

The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.

- Quinn, Jane Bryant

Best Quotes about Time

Time discovered truth.

Seneca

The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: I DID NOT HAVE TIME.

Field, Franklin

For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.

Mcluhan, Marshall

Just as you would not permit a fellow employee to steal a piece of office equipment, you shouldn't let anyone walk away with the time of his fellow managers.

Grove, Andrew

You love what you find time to do.

The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.

Beecher, Henry Ward

Time glides away and as we get older through the noiseless years; the days flee and are restrained by no reign.

Ovid

10.

He who lets time rule him will live the life of a slave.

Arthorne, John

11.

Love makes time pass away and time makes love pass away.

Proverb, French

12.

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

13.

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

14.

Well arranged time is the surest mark of a well arranged mind.

Pitman

15.

We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.

Covey, Stephen R.

16.

The longest day must have its close --the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

17.

The idea is to make decisions and act on them -- to decide what is important to accomplish, to decide how something can best be accomplished, to find time to work at it and to get it done.

Kakascik, Karen

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The geometry of landscape and situation seems to create its own systems of time, the sense of a dynamic element which is cinematizing the events of the canvas, translating a posture or ceremony into dynamic terms. The greatest movie of the 20th century is the Mona Lisa, just as the greatest novel is Gray's Anatomy.

Ballard, J. G.

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What very mysterious things days were. Sometimes they fly by, and other times they seem to last forever, yet they are all exactly twenty-four hours. There's quite a lot we don't know about them.

Melanie Benjamin

20.

There's never enough time to do it right, but there's always enough time to do it over.

Bergman, Jack

21.

A person who borrows your watch, tells you what time it is, pockets your watch, and then sends you a bill for it.

22.

Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

Rohn, Jim

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We realize our dilemma goes deeper than shortage of time; it is basically a problem of priorities. We confess, We have left undone those things that ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.

Hummel, Charles E.

24.

Time is not measured by the passing of years, but by what one does, what one feels and what one achieves.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

25.

Until we can manage TIME, we can manage nothing else.

Drucker, Peter F.

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There is here no measuring with time, no year matters, and ten years are nothing. Being an artist means, not reckoning and counting, but ripening like the tree which does not force it's sap and stands confident in the storms of Spring without the fear that after them may come no Summer. It does come. I learn it daily, learn it with pain to which I am grateful

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Time's glory is to calm contending kings, To unmask falsehood and bring truth to light, To stamp the seal of time in aged things, To wake the morn of sentinel the night, To wrong the wronger till he render right, To ruinate proud buildings with thy hour And smear with dust their glittering golden towers.

William Shakespeare

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Time's the king of men; he's both their parent, and he is their grave, and gives them what he will, not what they crave.

William Shakespeare

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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

30.

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

31.

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

32.

A single day is enough to make us a little larger.

Paul Klee

33.

There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven. [Ecclesiastes 3:1]

Bible

34.

We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

35.

I am what you will be, I was what you are.

36.

In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is lacking.

Lubbock, Sir John

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Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

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Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.

Lakein, Alan

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Write down the most important things you have to do tomorrow. Now, number them in the order of their true importance. The first thing tomorrow morning, start working on an item Number 1, and stay with it until completed. Then take item Number 2 the same way. Then Number 3, and so on. Don't worry if you don't complete everything on the schedule. At least you will have completed the most important projects before getting to the less important ones.

Lee, Ivy

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The time is out of joint : O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right!

William Shakespeare

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Time is but the stream I go fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. It's thin current slides away, but eternity remains.

Thoreau, Henry David

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We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch.

John F. Kennedy

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For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

44.

City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind's eye the notion of a better life ahead.

Hoagland, Edward

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Time is Too slow for those who wait, Too swift for those who fear, Too long for those who grieve, Too short for those who rejoice. But for those who love, time is not.

Dyke, Henry Van

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Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

47.

He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

48.

The supply of time is a daily miracle. You wake up in the morning and lo! Your purse is magnificently filled with 24 hours of the unmanufactured tissue of the universe of life. It is yours! The most precious of your possessions.

Bennet, Arnold

49.

Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

50.

It's how we spend our time here and now, that really matters. If you are fed up with the way you have come to interact with time, change it.

Marcia, Wieder